13/2010 - 15 Aug 2010 - Launching of i-Run in conjunction of Chung Ling Run

Dateline: Sunday 15 August 2010 at 7:00am

Venue: Chung Ling High School, Penang

Event: The 53rd Penang All Chinese Cross Country (2010年第53届全槟华人越野赛跑)

It was a Beautiful Sunday unlike this time 7 days ago at the Esplanade when we Listened to the Pouring Rain where the Merdeka Run was held. A shower had stopped a couple of hours ago which made the weather conditions even better for the runners and on what better circumstances do we ask for to launch the new name of our runners' group, " i-Run " on this auspicious day in conjunction of the above event.

This event attracted about 700 participants of which about 10% or 70 were from our group which made up of 31 in Men Open, 19 in Men Veteran and 21 in Women. Most of our participants, photographers, helpers were early at the Start to help in the distributions of bib numbers (given on race day).

The race started at scheduled 7:30am and the route were Jalan Ayer Itam - Thean Teik Road - Batu Lancang Lane - Green Lane - Jln Ayer Itam - Ibetson Road - Batu Lancang Lane - Jln Ayer Itam - Chung Ling for a total distance of 7.63km over tar-road (not really a cross-country race as it is called)

Our group performed well generally with the following came out as medal winners:

Men Open

19^th      Sam Chee Wang

Men Veteran

6^th        陈亚真 (Soon) – 32:31

9^th        Leong Siew Kee – 33:43

14^th      孙文明

15^th      Giam Chong Seng

17^th      罗书福

Women

1^st        黄姗妮 Sunny Ng – 34:19

2^nd       庄丽琴 – 35:53

4^th        Adeline Tan Man Hua – 37:06

10^th      曾伊雯 – 38:29

15^th      Jenny Wong Hooi Cheow

17^th      庄丽慧

18^th      颜慧甄

There were also Team categories based on the times of the top 5 finishers, unfortunately our Women Team was beaten by an aggregate of only 1 point to the second place by Forward Sports Club. That was so close yet so far and we salute and congratulate to our team for for their superb performance.

Celebrations n launching of our new name "i-Run" followed after the race, before the prize giving ceremony, led by our 'CEO' Andrew Loh, Captain Cheng Jin, Chairman Choo and William and our popular Mei Ling who provided the best audio effect :). Thanks to William, SK, Cindy, Adeline, ML, Jen, Gan, Lay Khim, Lay Hoon, Kelvin and others who bring lots n lots of cakes, kuih-moih, drinks, etc for the enjoyable happy hour at the open basketball court. There was another noisy celebration at the prize giving ceremony later.

We take this opportunity to express our thanks and appreciations to all those who had kindly rendered their effort and contributions to the successful launching of our new name and our new running vests. Thank you all the photographers for their kind service. We also extend our congratulations to all the medal winners and to all participants who completed the race. Last but not least we say a big 'Thank You' to Sam, Sunny, Lay Kim, Lay Hooi and others for joining us in our teams.

Thank you Chung Ling Alumni Association Penang for organising this event and we look forward to coming back next year. (Incidentally my 1st participation in this event was way back in 1970 when I represented my school)

Please click here for the photo album of this occasion, courtesy of Mei Ling for which we thank her.

On this day 15 August 2010, " i-Run " is born.